Loop for carriage-curtains



F. A..NEIDER Lodp for Carriage Curtains.

No. 234,888. Patented Nov. 30,1880.

I I I l I I I I I I I I I I l I N. PETERS, FHoTuLrINOGRAPl-I ER. WASHINGTON. D. C.

Nrran rA-TEs FRED A. NEIDER, OF AUGUSTA, KENTUCKY.

LOOP FOR CARRIAGE-CURTAINS.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 234,888, dated November 30, 1880.

Application filed February 21, 1880.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, FRED A. NEIDER, of Augusta, in the county of Bracken and State of Kentucky, have invented certain Improvements in Strap-Loops or Fasteners for Car- 7 riage-Gurtains, &c., of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to temporary fastenings for coach, harness, and other straps, but most particularly to those employed in attaching carriage-curtains to the back-stays.

The object is to provide a cheap and simple respectively, central longitudinal and transverse sections, the former showing the strap in section also. Fig. 4 is a plan view, illustrating the action of the shrinking curtain on the pivoted loop.

Let A represent the part to which the loop B is secured, which in this caseis a portion of a back-stay, and G the part to which the strap D is secured, which in this case is a portion of a carriage-curtain. The loop is made of sheet metal or other equivalent material, bent so as to form a tube, and the edges arranged to overlap, as shown in Fig. 3. These overlapped edges form the bottom of the loop, and they are perforated at the center to receive the pivoting-rivet a, as shown. For the purpose of inserting and fixing this rivet an aperture, b, is made in the top or root of the loop. The loop is attached by first punching a hole in the part A, then inserting the rivet a. through the aperture. I), and then smashing down the tip of the rivet on a washer, c. When When the fastening is to be made the strap is pressed as far through the loop as desired, and a hole in the strap is caused to engage the head d of the rivet. The free end of the strap is then tucked back into the loop, as shown in the figures, which keeps the body of the strap below it wedged down upon the bottom plate of the loop and prevents it from being drawn out. It will be observed, however, that to form the fastening it is requisite thatthc double strap shall fit snugly in the loop, and for fastenings where the strain is not great the tucking in of the end will be a sufficient holdfast without the head at of the rivet, as the bight of the strap will not pass through the loop without forcing when the doubled strap is sufficiently thick to fill it snugly. Itis best to bevel or shave down the free end of the strap a little, so that it may form a wedge.

In addition to the head at of the rivet, or, in lieu of it, a protuberance or protuberances might be raised on the bottom of the loop to engage holes in the strap, as indicated by dotted lines atec in Fig.2. These protuberances, as well as the head (I of the rivet, may be of any convenient shape; but I prefer a conical shape for the rivet-head, for the reason thatit offers less obstruction to the passage of the strap through the loop and permits the strap to readily disengage itself when the tucked-in end is withdrawn; but when the end of the strap is tucked in, as shown in the figures, the conical head serves quite as well as a detent as any other form.

WVhen carriage-curtains have been in use for some time they shrink somewhat, and, not bein g strained like the backstays, the straps and loops are thrown out of their normal coincidence, as indicated in Fig. 4. In such cases the loops may be turned on their pivots, so as to better adjust them to the straps on the curtain.

Although my fastening may be inverted in its constructionthat is, the free end of the strap might be tucked in under instead of over the body of the strap still it is very important that the head d or its equivalent protuberances should engage the body of the strap and not the free end; otherwise the strain upon the strap would not be thrown upon the protuberances at all, and their functions would be rendered nugatory.

Having thus described my invention, I claiml. An elongated tubular loop, 13, for a strapfastening, adapted to be attached to the part A by means of a single pivotal rivet or other like fastener, a, and arranged to turn on said rivet, in combination with said rivet a,:provided with a conical projecting head, substantially as set forth.

2. The tubular loop 13, provided with a protuberance on its inner face, which projects J about half-wayacross the opening through the loop, and with an attaching-rivet, substantially as and for the purposes set forth.

3. A loop, 13, for a strap-fastening, formed by -bending and overlapping the material, as shown, the same being provided with an opening, b, in the roof, and a perforation opposite to the said opening and through the lapped edges of the loop for the rivet, in combination with the said rivet centrally arranged in the loop, substantially as and for the purposes set forth.

In witness whereof I have hereunto signed my name in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

FRED A. NEIDER.

W'itnesses:

PETER CAMPBELL, JOHN A. HOPKINS. 

